Audi A2: Reborn!

The plan to launch a successor to the Audi A2 has reached the concept car stage, with a design for the car being shown inside Audi’s Ingolstadt HQ, according to the firm’s R&D chief, Michael Dick.

The new car will “be recognisable as an A2 but very different from the old car”, said Dick. However, the Audi A2 will not be launched this year.

Audi wants to release an electric A2 at the same time as the conventionally powered model, so the car’s design and engineering is taking longer than it would for a normal small hatchback.

“We will not make the same mistake as with the first A2 and do it all by ourselves,” said Dick. “We also want to build an electric version straight away. That has consequences. At the moment you think up a car and make it electric afterwards. With that car [the A2], things go the other way around.”